“In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and no-body pities their Case.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases.”
Pierre Corneille
“Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.”
Mark Twain
“A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int”
Samuel Johnson
“Wit is cultured insolence.”
Aristotle
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